Ufkun Ötesi Bilim Dergisi

Yazarlar: Esra AKI, Songül ATASAVUN

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Visual handicap,Reading speed

Özet: The aim of this study was to compare to reading speed between visually impaired with children and normal sighted children. This study was included who were continuing education in Ankara primary school, their age range’s was 7- 14 years and 30 sighted to 30 visually impaired. Sighted children read a page in a one minute which letter sized 12. Same page was read by Braille in visually impaired children. Reading words of children were detected by counting totally reading letter and dividing it to six as a word is formed by 6 characters (including space). True reading word in a minute was 97. 66±54. 88 in normal sighted children and 17. 63±15. 87 in visually impaired children. There were significant differences between groups (p<0. 05). As a conclusion, results of we calculated same page to reading letter. It was found sighted children read a letter better than visually impaired children. It was thought that visually impaired children less reading a book with Braille therefore they did not developed their reading skills. This method was simple, valid and took a short time. It was concluded that the increasing the reading speed of visually handicapped children might help to academic success

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